1. KARMAVIR DADASAHEB KANNAMWAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,NAGPUR
Name: Soham Sanjay Nirmal
Roll No. - 556
Section : E
Title of activity: Biography of Louis De-broglie
Mode of conductivity/Performing the activity: PPT Making
Learning outcomes: To understand the life of Louis de-Broglie
Guided By:
Prof.Kailash Gedekar
2. Summary
Information about Louis de-Broglie’s life, Place of birth,education and
interests as well as major events in his life
4. Childhood
Prince Louis-Victor de Broglie of the French Academy, Permanent
Secretary of the Academy of Sciences, and Professor at the Faculty of
Sciences at Paris University, was born at Dieppe (Seine Inférieure) on 15
August ,1892, the son of Victor , Duc de Broglie and Pauline d’Armaillé
De Broglie was the second son of a member of the French nobility.
From the Broglie family, whose name is taken from a small town
in Normandy, have come high-ranking soldiers, politicians, and
diplomats since the 17th century. In choosing science as a profession,
Louis de Broglie broke with family tradition
5. Education
After studying at the Lycée Janson of Sailly, he passed his school-leaving
certificate in 1909. He applied himself first to literary studies and took
his degree in history in 1910. Then, as his liking for science prevailed, he
studied for a science degree, which he gained in 1913. After receiving his
doctorate, de Broglie remained at the Sorbonne, becoming in 1928
professor of theoretical physics at the newly founded Henri Poincaré
Institute, where he taught until his retirement in 1962. He also acted,
after 1945, as an adviser to the French Atomic Energy Commissariat.
6. Scientific Career
He was then conscripted for military service and posted to the wireless
section of the army, where he remained for the whole of the war of
1914-1918. During this period he was stationed at the Eiffel Tower,
where he devoted his spare time to the study of technical problems. At
the end of the war Louis de Broglie resumed his studies of general
physics. While taking an interest in the experimental work carried out
by his elder brother, Maurice, and co-workers, he specialized in
theoretical theoretical physics and, in particular, in the study of
problems involving quanta.
7. Later Career and Writings
He was a foreign member of the British Royal Society, a member of the
French Academy of Sciences, and, like several of his forebears, a
member of the Académie Françise. Between 1930 and 1950, Louis de
Broglie’s work has been chiefly devoted to the study of the various
extensions of wave mechanics: Dirac’s electron theory, the new theory
of light, the general theory of spin particles, applications of wave
mechanics to nuclear physics, etc. He has published numerous notes
and several papers on this subject, and is the author of more than
twenty-five books on the fields of his particular interests
8. Accolades
After crowning Louis de Broglie’s work on two occasions, the Academie
des Sciences awarded him in 1929 the Henri Poincaré medal (awarded
for the first time), then in 1932, the Albert I of Monaco prize. In 1929
the Swedish Academy of Sciences conferred on him the Nobel Prize for
Physics “for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons”. In 1952 the
first Kalinga Prize was awarded to him by UNESCO for his efforts to
explain aspects of modern physics to the layman. In 1956 he received
the gold medal of the French National Scientific Research Centre. He
has made major contributions to the fostering of international scientific
cooperation.
9. • Professor de broglie’s Most important works are:
• Ondes et movements'' (Waves and motions), Gauthier-Villars, Paris,
1926
• La mécanique ondulatoire (Wave mechanics), Gauthier-Villars, Paris,
1928.
• The Current Interpretation of Wave Mechanics: A Critical Study,
Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1964.
• Non-linear Wave Mechanics: A Causal Interpretation, Elsevier,
Amsterdam,1960.
